FictionTHE PARTNER by John Grisham. (Doubleday: $26.95)...

Fiction

THE PARTNER by John Grisham. (Doubleday: $26.95) (1). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 6

3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY by Arthur C. Clarke. (Del Rey: $25) Astronaut Frank Poole is awakened 1,000 years later to witness a new civilization and the meaning of the mysterious monoliths (2). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 5

LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson. (Dutton: $23.95). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 7; Week on List: 11

TOTAL CONTROL by David Baldacci. (Warner: $24) (6). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 11

ASHWORTH HALL by Anne Perry. (Fawcett Columbine: $24) An important politican’s murder jeopardizes a meeting of Catholics and Protestants to discuss Irish home rule. Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

SOLE SURVIVOR by Dean Koontz. (Knopf: $25.95) (9). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 9

ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: $24.95). Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 16

ABBREVIATING ERNIE by Peter Lefcourt. (Villard: $24) A small-town detective searches for clues, not to mention pieces, in the bizarre case of a dismembered husband. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 4

THE CELESTINE PROPHECY by James Redfield. (Warner: $17.95) (12). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 83

AIRFRAME by Michael Crichton (Alfred A. Knopf: $26) Our reviewer, Thomas Petzinger Jr., said this tale of the jetliner industry captures “the delicate interplay of the individual elements in a complex system . . . [and] the unstinting personal commitment of the people who design these planes” (13). Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 10

Nonfiction

8 WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil. (Knopf: $23) (1). Southern California ranking: 1; Last Weeks: 6; Week on List: 5

ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt. (Scribner: $24) (2). Southern California ranking: 2; Last Weeks: 4; Week on List: 24

SIMPLE ABUNDANCE: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach. (Warner: $17.95) (3). Southern California ranking: 3; Last Weeks: 2; Week on List: 34

MASTERING THE ZONE: The Art of Achieving SuperHealth by Barry Sears. (ReganBooks: $24) (4). Southern California ranking: 4; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 8

MONSTER: Living Off the Big Screen by John Gregory Dunne. (Random House: $21) Our reviewer, Michael Crichton, called Dunne’s book “a remarkable narrative . . . that tells more about the experience of writing for Hollywood than any other book ever written.” Southern California ranking: 5; Last Weeks: 1; Week on List: 8

PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham. (Knopf: $29.95) The heiress at the helm of the Washington Post (11). Southern California ranking: 6; Last Weeks: 3; Week on List: 10

THE KISS by Kathryn Harrison. (Random House: $20) A writer reveals her tormented affair with her father that began when she was 20 (15). Southern California ranking: 7; Last Weeks: 5; Week on List: 3

NAKED by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown & Co.: $21.95) Spending Christmas with a paroled prostitute, working in a fruit-packing factory and other unusual moments in the life of the NPR commentator. Southern California ranking: 8; Last Weeks: 10; Week on List: 4

THE ARTHRITIS CURE by Jason Theodosakis, Barry Fox and Brenda Adderly. (St. Martin’s: $22.95) (5). Southern California ranking: 9; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 6

BOGART by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax (Morrow: $27.50) Our reviewer, David Thomson, called the book “an immediate triumph . . . So rich in its research, so compelling in its writing, it is an absorbing human story.” Southern California ranking: 10; Last Weeks: --; Week on List: 1

Paperbacks: FICTION

1. THE RUNAWAY JURY by John Grisham. (Bantam: $7.99)

2. THE LAST DON by Mario Puzo. (Ballantine: $7.99)

3. THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje. (Vintage: $11)

4. AUDREY HEPBURN’S NECK: A Novel by Alan Brown. (Pocket: $12)

5. FLOATERS by Joseph Wambaugh. (Bantam: $6.99)

Paperbacks: NONFICTION

1. ZAGAT SURVEY 1997 LOS ANGELES/SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT GUIDE edited by Merrill Shindler and Karen Berk. (Zagat Survey: $10.95)

2. THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD by Carl Sagan. (Ballantine: $14)

3. THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Stephen R. Covey. (Fireside/Simon and Schuster: $12)

4. HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS by Daniel Jonah Goldenhagen. (Vintage: $16)

5. THE COLOR OF WATER by James McBride. (Riverhead: $12)

Rankings based on Times’ poll of local bookstores. National hardcover rankings (in parentheses) are those of Publishers Weekly.